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A Day on a Studio Shoot in 80 Seconds

Parts of the 2018 CCA campaign 'Say No to Piracy' were shot over the course of a day on a sound stage at Fox Studios. This 80-second clip provides a glimpse into the long "hurry up and wait" periods, when the dozens of crew and cast are doing their jobs, setting up for or rehearsing the next shot, and the moments of activity when "Action" is called.

2018 Research

Australian Piracy Behaviours 2018 Research

New Site Blocking Research

New research shows that court-ordered site blocks, year-on-year, led to a 25% reduction in piracy overall and a 53% reduction in use of the online pirate sites subject to a blocking order.

INCOPRO’s Australian Site-Blocking Efficacy Report, compiled after the Australian Federal Court ordered the blocking of 59 pirate sites in August 2017, echoes the findings of a UK study by Carnegie-Mellon University* which showed that overall piracy was only significantly reduced when a substantial number of sites were blocked simultaneously.

The research also examines the piracy landscape in Australia and identifies the most used content infringing sites.

About site blocking in Australia

On August 18, 2017, a Federal Court ruling by the Hon. Justice John Nicholas ordered ISPs to block 42 websites found to be primarily engaged in facilitating access to copyright-infringing content (Roadshow Films Pty Ltd & Others). Orders were also made that day, in a separate case lodged by Foxtel in the Federal Court, to block a further 17 infringing websites. Since the first site-blocking orders were made in Australia in December 2016, the Federal Court has ordered 65 piracy sites to be blocked, and over 378 domains.

*Carnegie-Mellon University study – ‘Website Blocking Revisited: The Effect of the UK November 2014 Blocks on Consumer Behaviour’- April 2016